Chole Bhature – Deep Fried Bread & North Indian Style Curried Chickpeas
Bangalore weather has been very weepy the past few days. The sudden chill got to my bones and I wanted nothing more than to keep my feet curled up underneath me, tuck my blanket around me and snore away to glory. But for some strange reason, images of chole bhature kept creeping into my mind from nowhere, making it impossible to slip into the sinful pleasures of oblivion. (Could this mean I am a glutton?) After tossing and turning around in the darkness for a while, I realized that the only way to catch some sleep would be to give in to this particular call of chole bhature fate. I pulled myself out of bed and dragged my feet to the kitchen, tossed some chickpeas into a pot of water, measured out flour and curd and yeast for the bhature, mixed up my dough and let it rest on the stove, and returned to bed with the happy thoughts of chole bhature warming my heart.
Bhatura is essentially a deep fried leavened bread that is made with plain flour and fermented with curd and sometimes yeas